Terri Oda wrote:
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>Observations of a "token"[1] female...
>
>[1] I say "token" as a joke, generally. I'm there for other, more
>appropriate reasons, it's just often seen as a benefit that I provide a
>small bit of gender balance to some of the teams with whom I've worked.
I was at a conference once where esr was giving his "Noosphere" talk,
about what makes open source hackers do what they do if there's no
immediate monetary reward. He was talking about 'scarcity tokens' in an
exchange economy. Later, I found myself hanging round with him and
another female friend, Faye. The term 'scarcity token' became a running
joke with us, in reference to women in hackerdom.
Just a token anecdote...
K.
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